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BWTG - April 2018
Thursday, April 19, 2018 from 6:30am - 7:30am.
What's Special on today?
Events
1775 – American Revolutionary War: The war begins with an American victory in Concord during the battles of Lexington and Concord.
1782 – John Adams secures the Dutch Republic's recognition of the United States as an independent government. The house which he had purchased in The Hague, Netherlands becomes the first American embassy.
1818 – French physicist Augustin Fresnel signs his preliminary "Note on the Theory of Diffraction" (deposited on the following day). The document ends with what we now call the Fresnel integrals.
1861 – American Civil War: Baltimore riot of 1861: A pro-Secession mob in Baltimore attacks United States Army troops marching through the city.
1927 – Mae West is sentenced to ten days in jail for obscenity for her play Sex.
1943 – World War II: In Poland, the Warsaw Ghetto Uprising begins, after German troops enter the Warsaw Ghetto to round up the remaining Jews.
1971 – Charles Manson is sentenced to death (later commuted to life imprisonment) for conspiracy in the Tate–LaBianca murders.
1985 – Two hundred ATF and FBI agents lay siege to the compound of the white supremacist survivalist group The Covenant, The Sword, and the Arm of the Lord in Arkansas; the CSA surrenders two days later.
1987 – The Simpsons first appear as a series of shorts on The Tracey Ullman Show, first starting with Good Night.
1995 – Oklahoma City bombing: The Alfred P. Murrah Federal Building in Oklahoma City, USA, is bombed, killing 168 people including 19 children under the age of 6.
2013 – Boston Marathon bombing suspect Tamerlan Tsarnaev is killed in a shootout with police. His brother Dzhokhar is later captured hiding in a boat inside a backyard in the suburb of Watertown.
Birthdays
1903 – Eliot Ness, American law enforcement agent (d. 1957)
1925 – Hugh O'Brian, American actor (d. 2016)
1933 – Jayne Mansfield, American model and actress (d. 1967)
1935 – Dudley Moore, English actor, comedian, and pianist (d. 2002)
1946 – Tim Curry, English actor
1962 – Al Unser Jr., American race car driver
1968 – Ashley Judd, American actress and activist
Deaths
1824 – Lord Byron, English-Scottish poet and playwright (b. 1788)
1882 – Charles Darwin, English biologist and theorist (b. 1809)
1906 – Pierre Curie, French physicist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1859)
1916 – Ephraim Shay, American engineer, designed the Shay locomotive (b. 1839) Trains are Cool.
Today is the ” National High Five Day ”!
Gimme a high five. As a matter of fact, give everyone you see a High Five!
The "High Five" is a celebratory slapping of hands atop raised arms. It's been a standard for celebration of sporting victories, special event, competitions and many other activities for decades.
It's fun , and easy to celebrate this special day. Give a High Five to everyone you see. This includes friends, family, passersby, and total strangers. The more high fives you give, the better.
The event??
Breakfast With The Gang. Breakfast With The Geocachers. Bulging Waistlines Totally Grew. Breakfast With The Goofballs. Beware When Travis Geocaches. Breakfast With Team Geochef. Best Way To Geocache. Breakfast While Talking Geocaching. BWTG="Brian-Wussy; Travis-Greatest".
Call it what you want, but whatever you call it, it IS good food and great company. So let's get together, talk caching, and eat!
When?
Thursday, April 19, 2018 from 6:30am - 7:30am. (Oh yes, AM, in the morning, bright and early, rise and shine sleepy head). You may stay longer if you'd like, that depends on what time you have to show up for work or be somewhere else.
Where?
We will be meeting for a good, hearty breakfast at Cracker Barrel, just South of I-94.
Who?
Everyone is welcome at the event!
What Do I Bring?
Bring a good, hearty appetite and be ready to share some of the best memories you have of geocaching; including, but not limited to, best caches, best events, best hospital story, best encounter with local law enforcement authorities, etc.
Celebrating a Milestone?
We want to know! Post it on the event page and you'll be acknowledged here as an official part of this event's history!
What do I do AFTER the event?
If you don't have to go to work or be somewhere else, we suggest you get out and cache!!! Either alone or with one of the groups that will, undoubtedly, be formed before, during or after the event. A great geocaching day can start here!
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